How To Make Homemade Snowflake Slime Recipe with Video

You stick out your tongue, close your eyes, and tilt your head up to the sky as big fat snowflakes start to fall. Let it snow, let it snow! That’s what my son has been saying for the last month now. I’m ok with waiting a little longer before I see the flakes fly. Whether you love or hate snow or live somewhere where there will never be snow, you can still learn how tomake homemade snowflake slime recipe with the kids! Making slime is an awesome winter indoor activity.

HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE SNOWFLAKE SLIME RECIPE AND VIDEO!

A newly fallen blanket of snow, big fluffy flakes falling steadily through the air, and a favorite homemade slime recipe are perfect for a winter afternoon activity. Don’t have any snow, 80 degrees and sunny? No worries, you can still create a snowstorm in the kitchen or classroom with our homemade snowflake slime recipe!

MAKE HOMEMADE SNOWFLAKE SLIME RECIPE

All of our holiday, seasonal, and everyday theme slimes use one of our 4 basic slime recipes that are super easy to make! We make slime all the time, and these have become our go-to favorite slime making recipes.

I will always let you know which recipe we used in our photographs, but I will also tell you which of the other basic recipes will work too! Usually you can interchange several of the recipes depending on what you have for slime supplies.

I think there’s something a bit magical about this winter, glittering snowflake slime.

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Slime is easy to make, but it’s important that you read the directions, use the correct ingredients, measure accurately, and have a little patience if you don’t succeed the first time. Remember, it’s a recipe just like baking!

SLIME FAILURES

The biggest reason for slime fails is not reading through the recipe! People contact me all the time with: “Why didn’t this work?”

Most of the time the answer has been lack of attention to supplies needed, reading the recipe, and actually measuring the ingredients! So give it a try and do let me know if you need some help. On a very rare occasion I have gotten an old batch of glue, and there is no fixing that!

THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE HOMEMADE SLIME RECIPE

What’s the science behind the slime? The borate ions in the slime activator {sodium borate, borax powder, or boric acid} mixes with the PVA {polyvinyl-acetate} glue and forms this cool stretchy substance. This is called cross linking! Today you are using borax powder as your activator.

The glue is a polymer and is made up of long, repeating, and identical strands or molecules. These molecules with flow past one another keeping the glue in a liquid state.

The addition of water is important to this process. Think about when you leave a gob of glue out, and you find it hard and rubbery the next day.

When you add the borate ions to the mixture, it starts to connect these long strands together. They begin to tangle and mix until the substance is less like the liquid you started with and is thicker and rubberier like slime!

Now just be aware that if you add a ton of confetti and large size glitter, you can disrupt this tangling process which can make the slime more breakable and less stretchy.

SNOWFLAKE SLIME RECIPE

When you are opting for a clear slime with confetti, the best slime recipe is the borax recipe. Although you can certainly use both the saline solution slime recipe and the liquid starch slime recipe too. However, your slime won’t be completely clear as this one is.

You can read more about the safety factors regarding borax when you check out the recipe. Do keep in mind that both saline solution and liquid starch contain active ingredients from the boron family as well. They are not considered borax free recipes either.

I will leave links to our three basic slime recipes that can be used and you can decide for yourself. Remember if you want the clear slime like we show here, you need the borax recipe. Otherwise the slime will be cloudy unless you add a drop or two of food coloring which is also an option.

You will see all the steps you need to make this gorgeous clear glue slime on the recipe page for the borax powder slime recipe. Below are some highlights of the mixing process. Check the actual recipe page for full instructions!

Borax powder, water, and clear glue are the basic ingredients you need to make this awesome homemade snowflake slime.

Borax powder mixed with hot water is the slime activator that creates the rubbery, slimey texture you can’t wait to play with! It’s super easy to whip up this homemade slime recipe once you get the hang of it.

Add a healthy amount of snowflake confetti and glitter if desired. Make sure to not add too much otherwise your slime will be more likely to break apart due to the confetti getting in the way.

Got a Frozen fan? This is perfect to go along with a favorite movie too.

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Click on all the black boxes below to learn more and become a slime making expert in no time at all. We have printable sheets, videos, and the easiest recipes around. We have been using these recipes for 4 years now and have great results all the time.

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